of an interpreter - Geoff Watts How should we deal with dark winters? - Linda Geddes Smartphones won't make your kids dumb (Probably) - Olivia Solon You can train your mind into 'receiving' medicine -Jo Marchant Charting the phenomenon of deep grief - Andrea Volpe The mirror cure for phantom limb pain -Srinath Perur Can you think yourself into a different person? - Will Storr How to survive a troubled childhood - Lucy Maddox What tail-chasing dogs reveal about humans - Shayla Love A central nervous solution to arthritis - Gaia Vince Could virtual reality headsets relieve pain? -Jo Marchant What it means to be homesick in the 21st Century - John Osborne Lighting up brain tumours with Project Violet - Alex O'Brien The US military plan to supercharge brains - Emma Young All these stories were published under a Creative Commons licence by Mosaic Science, a project founded by the global health charity Wellcome. Mosaic Science has published dozens of stories exploring the science people care about. Canbury Press has chosen the best and curated them into this book and a companion volume, Bodyology (ISBN 9780995497863)